The Awesome One Isn't All That Awesome Anymore

Rep. John Conyers:

President Barack Obama is "bowing down" to Republicans and corporate interests on health reform, Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) said Thursday.

Conyers, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and a longtime advocate of single-payer healthcare, blasted the president for a perceived weakness in leadership on health reform.

"I'm getting tired of saving Obama's can in the White House," Conyers said on the liberal Bill Press radio show. "He only won by five votes in the House, and this bill wasn't even anything to write home about."

"The only way he could have got it through was that progressives held their nose," Conyers added.

Not exactly a ringing endorsement from a long-time Congressional liberal.  It appears that some around the world are catching on to this, too, including the London Spectator:

Now would be a good time for Obama to fulfill his campaign promise of lowering the oceans and healing the planet.  The Kool-Aid only goes so far, apparently.

There's my two cents.